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Pedimana :: Pedimana (n. pl.) A division of marsupials, including the opossums..

Rhizophaga :: Rhizophaga (n. pl.) A division of marsupials. The wombat is the type.

Bandicoot :: Bandicoot (n.) A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania..

Wombat :: Wombat (n.) Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (P. ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots..

Tait :: Tait (n.) A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger..

Quoll :: Quoll (n.) A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat..

Marsupial :: Marsupial (n.) One of the Marsupialia.

Marsupial :: Marsupial (a.) Of or pertaining to a marsupium; as, the marsupial bones..

Perameles :: Perameles (n.) Any marsupial of the genus Perameles, which includes numerous species found in Australia. They somewhat resemble rabbits in size and form. See Illust. under Bandicoot..

Didelphous :: Didelphous (n.) Formerly, any marsupial; but the term is now restricted to an American genus which includes the opossums, of which there are many species. See Opossum. [Written also Didelphis.] See Illustration in Appendix..

Marsupial :: Marsupial (a.) Having a pouch for carrying the immature young; of or pertaining to the Marsupialia.

Marsupialia :: Marsupialia (n. pl.) A subclass of Mammalia, including nearly all the mammals of Australia and the adjacent islands, together with the opossums of America. They differ from ordinary mammals in having the corpus callosum very small, in being implacental, and in having their young born while very immature. The female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata..

Pedimane :: Pedimane (n.) A pedimanous marsupial; an opossum.

Didelphid :: Didelphid (n.) A marsupial animal.

Phalanger :: Phalanger (n.) Any marsupial belonging to Phalangista, Cuscus, Petaurus, and other genera of the family Phalangistidae. They are arboreal, and the species of Petaurus are furnished with lateral parachutes. See Flying phalanger, under Flying..

Phascolome :: Phascolome (n.) A marsupial of the genus Phascolomys; a wombat.

Implacentalia :: Implacentalia (n. pl.) A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed..

Phyllophagan :: Phyllophagan (n.) One of a group of marsupials including the phalangists.

Marsupian :: Marsupian (n.) One of the Marsupialia.

Nototherium :: Nototherium (n.) An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia..

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